Adjustable curtain-bracket.



PATENTED NOV. 14, 1905.

H. R. PHELPS. ADJUSTABLE CURTAIN BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 23! 1905.

HENRY R. PHELPS, OF AUBURN, ILLINOIS.

ADJUSTABLE CURTAIN-BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 14, icon.

Application filed February 23, 1905. Serial No. 246,998.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY R. PHELPS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Auburn, in the county of Sangamon and State of 5 Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Curtain-Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtain-brackets.

In apartment-houses and the like the win- 1 dow-casings are frequently marred and disfigured by different tenants in applying curtain-fixtures of various constructions to the Windows.

The principal object of the present inven- I tion is to improve the construction of curtainbrackets in such manner as to adapt them to receive curtain-poles, rollers, or rods of various constructions, so as to avoid the mutilation of the window-casing in removing one fixture and applying another.

Other objects of the invention are to improve and simplify the construction of curtain-brackets; furthermore, to decrease the expense attending their manufacture.

l/Vith the foregoing and other minor objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed as a practical embodiment thereof.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a curtain-bracket constructed in accordance with the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section. Fig. 3 is a perspective view. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are detail views.

Like referencenumerals indicate corresponding parts in the different views.

As will be apparent from Fig. 1, two of the improved fixtures of this invention are employed in supporting a shade or curtain, one of said fixtures being employed for each end of the curtain-pole or shade-roller. For this reason a description of one fixture will be sufficient to convey an understanding of both.

As shown in Fig. 3, the improved fixture comprises a bracket 1, which may be of any suitable form and construction. The bracket 1 preferably is provided at each end with a supporting-leg 2, having a perforation 3 to receive a nail, screw, or the like. The supporting-leg 2 at each end of thebracket 1 preferably is formed by bending the material of 55 said bracket, as shown. The intermediate portion of the bracket 1that is, the portion between the supporting-legs 2-is formed, preferably, with a longitudinal slot 4.

Combined with the bracket 1 is a sliding bracket 5, having bent flanges 6, which fit around the bracket 1. The bent flanges 6 constitute means for holding the bracket 5 in sliding engagement with the bracket 1. Formed integral with or secured to the sliding bracket 5 is a supporting-arm 7, which is designed to support one end of a shade-roller 8, as shown clearly in Fig. 1.

Secured to the sliding bracket 5 in any suitable manner is a detachable supporting-arm 9, which is formed with a bent portion 10, designed to receive a curtain-pole 11, and with a terminal pin or projection 12, designed to fit into a suitable perforation in the end of a metallic curtain-rod 13, which may be of any suitable form and construction. It will be obvious that the bent portion 10 of the detachable supporting-arm 9 constitutes means to receive a curtain-pole and that the pin or projection 12 constitutes means to receive a curtain-rod.

The detachable supporting-arm 9 is secured to the sliding bracket 5 in any suitable manner, as by means of a bolt 14. The bolt 14 extends through the slot 4 in the bracket 1 and is provided with a nut 15. As shown clearly in Fig. 2, the nut 15 is of such size as to fit snugly between the bent flanges6 of the sliding bracket 5. This arrangement of the nut 15 and bent flanges 6 is convenient in assembling the supporting-arm 9 upon the sliding bracket 5, as it will be apparent that the flanges 6 serve to prevent rotation of the nut 15 while the bolt 14 is being screwed thereinto with a screw-driver or similar implement.

From the foregoing description it will be apparent that when the bracket 1 has been applied to a window-casing the same is adapted to receive either a shade-roller, such as 8, a curtain-pole, such as 11, or a curtain-rod, such as 13, for which reason the necessity of removing the bracket each time a different character of shade or curtain is employed is avoided, and consequently unnecessary mutilation of the window-casing is prevented.

It will be understood that the curtain-pole 11 is employed to accommodate large curtain- 1 rings, and thecurtain-rod 13 is employed to accommodate small curtainrings, it being merely a matter of preference as to whether a wooden pole or metallic rod should be employed to support the curtain.

The improved device of this invention is strong, simple, durable, and inexpenslve in construction, as well as thoroughly eflicient and bent flanges engaging opposite sides of the first-mentioned bracket, a detachable supporting-arm on the sliding bracket, said detachable supporting-arm having a bent portion to receive a curtain-pole, and a pin toreceive a curtain-rod, a bolt extending through the detachable arm and sliding bracket, and a nut on the bolt, said nut fitting snugly between the bent flanges of the sliding bracket, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY R. PHELPS.

Witnesses: 1

JA ES A. OGG, 1 KITTIE E. MoINNEs. 

